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Kundalini Yoga

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This book is a well-written and clearly illustrated study manual for enlightenment using the devotional system of Hindu Tantric Yoga. The author is a long time beloved disciple of the Yoga Swami Sivananda Saraswati. Born in 1887 this man of God established an ashram (spiritual retreat) by a beautiful mountain lake in Rishikesh India. There he became a great enlightened Yoga and trained a group of disciples who have done a lot of good in the service of humanity. In this book Swami Radha goes into a detailed description of how to understand the nature of various deities (aspects of God) which reside inside of ourself. Among these deities are the presences of God (male aspects) and the shaktis of God or powers God (female aspects). She gives useful exercises for laypeople in order to prepare the mind for this enlightenment. Readers of this book will also be interested in the book, "The Serpent Power, the Secrets of Tantric and Shaktic Yoga." (Dover Publications) by the British student of Hinduism Sir John Woodroffe. This latter book predates Swami Radhas' book and contains a lot of additional information (especially for those who know a little Sanskrit) along with many of the same pictures of deities that are in hers. I believe I have benefited from the work that Swami Radha and Sir John Woodroffe have done in helping to unlock these secrets of Eastern Mysticism and make them more assessible to sincere study by Westerners. I hope the one power and the one presence of the good and omnipresent God who blesses and protects the souls of Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Muslims (and many others) blesses and protects the heavenly souls of these sincere and good hearted people (Swami Saraswati Sivananda, Swami Sivananda Radha, and Sir John Woodruffe). May they have many students who also acheive enlightenment and may there souls live in heaven a long time (forever, if they so choose).